Imagine Leadership

My friend Corey White found this video. I love the messages and the way in which the visuals tell the story. Here is the video's description from YouTube:

Nitin Nohria and Amanda Pepper of Harvard Business School's Leadership Initiative collaborated with XPLANE to create this video in order to generate a discussion of the value and importance of leadership to address some of societys most pressing problems.

"It is my desire to inspire people of all ages and social demographics to think about leadership on a broad level, contemplate what it means to them and what individual impact they can have when it comes to leading," says Nohria.

Enjoy!

A Tribute to Everyday Leadership

This feature was produced for the Major League Baseball All-Star game, and was shown along with a ceremony honoring "everyday heroes." Stories of these kinds never get old. The piece is also compelling because it features 5 living presidents. As an advocate for the nonprofit sector, I also admire how the heroes all seem to be connected to a nonprofit organization. Enjoy...

Supporting Nonprofit Leadership Development

Here is an interesting take on how foundations can better support leadership development in the nonprofit sector. The management/leadership distinctions are not new, but entirely relevant in this case.

PND - The Sustainable Nonprofit: Fire, Aim, Ready: Why Most Foundation-Funded Capacity Building Efforts Miss the Mark

1 Man, 2 Organizations, 1 Cause, 2 Approaches

It will be interesting to watch how issues of animal rights are impacted by the return of Michael Vick. The confessed dogfighter, who claims to be rehabilitated, is being handled in two very different ways by two like-minded organizations: PETA and the Humane Society. PETA's strategy seems to be to vilify Vick and use protests to raise awareness of animal cruelty. The Humane Society's approach seems to be to embrace Vick and use him as a spokesperson against dogfighting. So, whose strategy is the most ethically sound, and will be the most effective? When raising awareness, and making a case, is it better to find an enemy to work against, or try to make an enemy into a friend? I have my opinion, but what's yours?